Over on his blog, Eric is doing a great line in simple examples for controlling the GPIO pins of the Pi. This time, he covers PWM on the Pi by giving an example of an LED which changes brightness depending…
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Simple read/write of the Raspberry Pi GPIO
A blogger called Eric has written up a simple piece of code, and an accompanying Fritzing circuit diagram, of how to read a switch input and turn an LED on and off. It’s a simple example, but does show you…
Portable Raspberry Pi using a 3D printed case
Jonathan has written an Instructable tutorial to create a portable Raspberry Pi. It uses one of the popular car reversing screens and a 3D printed case. Read it here.
Neopixel LED temperature gauge with Raspberry Pi
Ismail Uddin of scienceexposure.com has written an in-depth tutorial in which he uses a thermistor to track temperature changes and a Neopixel ring to display a temperature gauge. It uses various libraries and work already out there and contains instructions as…
Piezo ring tones with the Raspberry Pi
Roberto Marquez has written a tutorial over on the Adafruit site to generate ring tones on the Pi and play them via a simple piezo buzzer. Nice beginners project that anyone should be able to do. Read it here.
Raspberry Pi television schedule helper for the visually impaired
Hackaday.io user Chewable Drapery (Dean Walker)’s grandfather-in-law is 92 and is gradually losing his sight. In particular, he has real problems reading the on-screen television guide. So, Chewable has constructed a box and a controller, called EVA, using a Raspberry Pi…
Raspberry Pi brings to life Adventure Time console BMO
Well-loved cartoon series Adventure Time has been used as the basis for a Raspberry Pi project. Mike Barretta 3D printed the case for the unit, which has a Pi inside, and has loaded it up with all kinds of retro gaming…
Colourful clock for toddlers uses a Raspberry Pi to teach time
Don and his wife have a two year old daughter. They’re trying to teach her the concept of time, and get her to understand that, perhaps, one o’clock in the morning is not the perfect time of day for play! To help…
Lionel train set controlled by Raspberry Pi
Over at Dexter Industries they wanted to control a vintage Lionel trainset from the Pi. For this, they used their Arduberry board (which brings Arduino-compatible control to the Pi) and some standard software and custom code. Read how they did…
PiGlove Raspberry Pi project creator interviewed
Linux User and Developer has interviewed maker Dan Aldred about his PiGlove project. It’s a glove that has buttons in the fingertips that send commands to an attached Raspberry Pi. We were lucky enough to have Dan at the Big Birthday…